Paul Beach wrote:

>>> For curiosity, what exactly they used to do?
>>>
>>>
>> An example (hopefully self-explanatory):
>>
>> print running count, name, salary, running total salary, running
>> average salary of people
>>
>
> Hmm I smell datatrieve....
>
>

Ah, yes, Datatrieve. I remember that...

Ken Jacobs, the Oracle VP who just resigned after 28 years (see the
news), recently wrote:

Thanks for sharing that, Jim. I am always amazed at how something
as basic and fundamental as concurrency control remains a
fascinating subject, even after all these years. Can't make your
talk, but perhaps I'll catch it online ...

Take care ...

Ken

P.S. You may be pleased to know that one reason I became interested
in database technology was that I happened to be introduced to
Datatrieve in the early 70s. Yikes, I'm getting old!


Jim Starkey wrote:

> Ken, now that you are now almost not a competitor, you might find
> this interesting, even if it is one the wrong coast:
> http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/starkeytalk.html
>

Yikes, we're both getting old!


--
Jim Starkey
NimbusDB, Inc.
978 526-1376



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